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On 25 March 2020, the ‘Friends’ music video was released at a launch party held at Metta Bar in Tanglin Mall.

Five films were screened at the event: the ‘Friends’ music video co-starring actor Jeremy Ward, a short film called ‘Gaia’, another short film called ‘Approved’, a music video for ‘Tryin” by Jack & Rai, and a video for the remix of ‘Friends’ featuring rapper AngelK.

The music video was made in collaboration with Deepesh Vasudev & Tejas Ewing, collectively known as DVET. Their short films have previously won awards such as the international #Nucleus Short Film Competition organised by Goethe Institute.

Watch the ‘Friends’ storyline-based music video below (and look out for the twist at the end):

On 5 Nov 2019, Sasha was invited alongside local rapper Anand “AK” to be guests on the podcast, “With Tawfik Daud”, where they shared personal stories about their journeys as artists. Listen to the podcast below.

00:00 – opening rap3:45 – declaration of singlehood (and how you gotta be married to the music)5:30 – writing songs in the shower (aka Loaded)8:43 – AK: “f**k it I’ll do it myself” (aka making beats)10:58 – Sasha: then diaries, now songs (mentions unreleased music)12:57 – inspiration from real life experiences (aka Friends)15:27 – budgeting as an indie artist (e.g. for music video)18:23 – “I like both ways” – AK, 201920:06 – Sasha speculates on Dua Lipa’s writing process21:10 – The Story of LA (with all the tea!)24:28 – struggles as an artist + how to break free31:01 – How To Stop Your Parents Asking When You’ll Get Married, by AK31:54 – hard thoughts re: family vs your career35:48 – comments by the haters (for a good laugh)38:15 – “Someone offered me $30 to sing two sets?”42:55 – the RIHANNA bomb45:14 – declaration of love for Camila Cabello48:18 – labels, y/n?49:02 – Sasha’s advice to young artists49:55 – AK’s advice to young artists51:25 – pfleth52:30 – singing Friends (with vocal percussion, and side digs at the drummer)

The remix EP for ‘Loaded’ with Hasso and Sasha M is available for digital download today.

Staying true to the original track’s roots as an international collaboration, this EP, titled ‘Loaded: RELOADED’, contains three remixes by different producers from around the world: Clectica from Finland, RIKI from Italy, and Wariner from USA.

The release features album artwork by Nikkaroo Art from Singapore, with photography by Daniel Alejandro Gonzalez from USA.

Sasha is happy to have been invited back to perform at Voices – A Festival of Song at the Esplanade, this time as a solo act. She will be performing several of her original songs for the very first time.

Sasha M may be a newcomer to the original music scene, but her first collaboration released in April this year peaked on the Spotify Germany Viral 50 charts, coming second only to the winner of Eurovision. Sasha enjoys writing and performing music that is pop, rock, and dance influenced. No stranger to the Esplanade stages and particularly Voices – A Festival of Song, her last performance was in 2015 singing popular songs with vocal harmonies, in homage to her a cappella roots.

A former member of award-winning a cappella group NUS Resonance and the female trio SASS, Sasha is very happy and honoured to be back this year to perform on a special new stage at Voices, this time as a solo artist and armed with her own songs! She premieres her original music and acoustic versions of what will become the music she wants to make—pop tracks that people can dance to.

Hey guys! Thanks for being patient with me the past week while I’ve been setting up the new website design. I’m happy to announce that it’s finally ready. Welcome to the new Sasha M Online!

For the new look, I wanted to go for something edgy and sexy. The whole front page tries to do that while also putting forward the most important information.

In the next few pages, I have an artist landing page, an events page, and a contact page, very standard. And in keeping with my old site, I also still have my blog which I do consider to be a big part of my artistic journey and development. It’s there so anyone can access it again if they felt they wanted to check or look for something.

Setting up this site has been a good exercise for me – in thinking about branding and marketing, and making conscious choices. I hope this is a step forward in building a strong artist identity that I can carry through in my future activities.

What do you think? Do you like the new look? How would you describe this look? I’d love to know what you guys think!

Meanwhile, stay tuned as there will be more news coming up – so sign up to the mailing list if you haven’t already 😉

As most of the people following my social media know by now, it’s been a mega exciting week. My first ever single, ‘Loaded’, which I released on 13 April in collaboration with producer/DJ Hasso and under a German EDM label Weeolino Music, got on the Spotify Germany Viral 50 charts last week.

It entered the charts way high up at #5. And then it went all the way up to #2, right below the just-announced winner of Eurovision!

It’s an absolutely insane result for a song that was released relatively quietly, with no advertisements, no paid promotion or anything of the sort. Just purely organic plays and streams by people who liked the track. Enough, it seems, to put us right next to an artist who was on the biggest Europe-wide music show ever, that hosted bands as awesome as ABBA!

Some people have been asking, “Who is Hasso?” Well, I mentioned him in a post I wrote previously. He’s a super talented producer from Germany who’s also a really great person and friend, and I’m so happy to be able to have a chart-topping (almost?? haha) song with him.

Aside from Hasso, another person I would like to thank is my dear friend Nik who did (my version of) the album art for me. She took my concept and totally gave it life, it turned out better than I could have imagined.

Look at all these glitches and stuff they look so good!!!

And of course, thank you to Daniel for taking this photo of me during our music video shoot for Dangerous Woman. (That’s still my most professionally done video on my channel, haha.) Who would’ve guessed that this photo would go so far!

The support for this song has been tremendous. So many people were listening to the song and sharing it with their friends. I’ve been beyond touched to receive messages, screenshots and tags in posts about Loaded. Some of you guys are using it as your ringtone too, that’s incredible!

On top of that, Bandwagon wrote a really lovely article about the song and I’m so happy:

I’m immensely grateful especially for all the support from listeners in Germany. If I could reach them, I would say thank you in a video and put it in targeted ads all over Germany! Haha, of course I can’t. But I can and will say thank you here on my blog, and put it on the internet, so that hopefully some of these people will be able to see it.

For you who are reading this, thank you also for supporting me and being interested in my work. It means the absolute world to me that you guys care about what I’m doing. I really hope you like the song as well, that I made with Hasso.

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